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Justin Bieber & Co.
Peter and Benjamin Bratt are on a mission
Buddy cops vs. buddy cops: Can 'The Other Guys' outdo 'Cop Out'?
AEG Chief: LAFF can be as big as Sundance
Usher on Justin Bieber: 'When he sang, I realized we were dealing with the real thing'
Review: 'Treme' on HBO
James Van Der Beek is expecting his first child with new girlfriend Kimberly Brook
'America's Best Dance Crew': Video from the red carpet and an international rant
Activision fires back at former 'Call of Duty' developers
Getting Jane Lynch to sing on 'Glee': It wasn't hard

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:24 PM PDT

A team of adults works to keep the teen pop sensation from becoming too big for his baseball cap and dog chains.

Justin Bieber had finished school for the day, but the threat of detention was still looming.

Peter and Benjamin Bratt are on a mission

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 12:00 AM PDT

'La Mission' fulfills their long-time dream of making a film about San Francisco's Mission District, where they grew up.

When Peter and Benjamin Bratt were growing up in San Francisco, the city's Mission District was the soul of their compact universe.

Buddy cops vs. buddy cops: Can 'The Other Guys' outdo 'Cop Out'?

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:15 PM PDT

If I were Sony, I might be a wee bit worried, since judging by the trailer, "The Other Guys" looks awfully similar to "Cop Out."

AEG Chief: LAFF can be as big as Sundance

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 07:21 PM PDT

"We want to be in a situation where some of the biggest events in the film world would take place at the Los Angeles Film Fest."

Usher on Justin Bieber: 'When he sang, I realized we were dealing with the real thing'

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 07:33 PM PDT

And "when you talk to him, it s like you re talking to a well-seasoned young man."

Review: 'Treme' on HBO

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:00 AM PDT

The new series from David Simon ('The Wire') captures the heartaches and hope in post-Katrina New Orleans.

The welter of expectations and "highly anticipateds" surrounding the premiere of David Simon's "Treme" all but demands a measure of critical blowback. Certainly there will be obligatory mewling about the new 10-episode HBO series being good but not as good as "The Wire," which launched Simon into the elite cadre of television artistes. There may be some random chest-beating over white folks' unfortunate tendency to get mushy in the head about black musicians and the South in general, and probably more than a few blog-ready over-analyses of the politics/wisdom/hubris/sentimentality of taking on post-Katrina New Orleans.